Ottawa’s top doctor paints bleak picture of a city without supervised consumption sites | CBC News

> “It is anticipated that this will cause a series of impacts to clients, including increased likelihood of overdose and subsequent adverse health outcomes such as brain injury and death,” Arnason wrote, noting about 1,750 individual clients use the sites, sometimes multiple times a day or week.

There was a recent article about the closure of one of the Toronto sites where they interviewed someone who used the site everyday for years. They and their family were concerned about the safety due to the risks of ODing outside a safe injection site. The thing that stood out to me was this person who used the site everyday with seemingly no intention to stop was considering the real danger to their addiction for the first time because of the sites closure.

I guess at some point we just abandoned the idea that these sites were supposed to help reduce drug use. Even this article is basically just saying that we created a safety net that now thousands of people are depend on and removing it is a morality issue.

Ford should be called out for what this is, a cull of the most vulnerable bottom of our society. He is setting a minimum viable threshold for a right to life, and it’s not those who have sunken into despair.